MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/. Russia has documented interference by the European Union in the State Duma elections, with the EU preparing a statement on the conduct of the vote in advance, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin has said.

"There was interference. We took note of it. We noted that the European Commission had already prepared, so to speak, a document in advance alleging that the elections were flawed," Naryshkin said in an interview with TV Channel One.

On September 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the European Union had approved a statement several days before the elections began, declaring the vote "invalid from the standpoint of European democratic standards.".